On the plane back to the United States from Afghanistan, Charlie told his assistant a story:
When he was 13 years old, he had a neighbor who loved flowers, but his flowers were always trampled by the puppies around him. One day, Charlie came home and found his puppy tragically dead in the yard with a bloody mouth. It turned out that the neighbor crushed the glass bottle and mixed it with dog food and fed it to his dog. So, Charlie burned the neighbor's garden with gasoline, but it wasn't enough to relieve his anger... The chance for revenge finally came. It's time for the biennial election. It turned out that his neighbor was the mayor of their small Texas town. On the day of the election, Charlie got up early in the morning and went to the ghetto to transport these voters to the polling site for free. He always waited until they got out of the car and said to the voters, "I don't want to interfere with you, but I think you should know that this guy killed my dog on purpose."...that year they He personally picked up 96 of the more than 400 voters in the constituency. As a result, his neighbor lost to his opponent by 16 votes. "Since that moment, I fell in love with America," Charlie said.
Clearly, Charlie understood American politics from that moment on. Since then, he has probably used this principle over and over again to climb to the position of Congress step by step.
At the beginning of the film, Charlie is invited by two of his friends to pick up girls in Las Vegas and persuade him to make money for a tertiary film. And it didn't take long for him to be taken to bed by the fifth richest woman in the world. After the man fell in love with the woman, the rich woman asked him to help the Afghans to round up money to attack the Soviet Union. In fact, most Americans have no idea where Afghanistan is. In the opening credits, the strippers make the news of Afghanistan as India. At the end of the film, members of Congress even referred to Afghanistan as Pakistan when they were meeting. Therefore, from ordinary people to members of Congress, most people care about their own selfish interests. Only money, power, and beauty are eternal and universal truths that everyone can read. "Charlie's War" has stripped politics of the emperor's new clothes, leaving only naked deals and sanctimonious child's play.
This is a true story. But it feels like a legend. I really admire the skill of the writer. The plot is so tight that you can't keep up with the rhythm if you don't pay attention. There is a bridge hidden in almost every dialogue. And each passage is quite ironic.
The real Charlie Wilson is more handsome and suave than any American politician or star. And Julia Roberts is probably the only flaw in the film. After seeing the prototype of Joanne Herring, I feel that the big mouth beauty can be said to be extremely vulgar. I believe that any Iron Lady who can rule the world must be an elegant and charming woman. Their incomparable strength comes from the heart, not the coldness in their faces or words. She should be sexier than any other woman. The only difference is that she will not cook a meal or serve a cup of tea for the man after the lingering, but only ask him to run and raise money in order to save a country.
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